Shadow banned by fingerprint?

1 pointjustintestin2 comments

My old account "get" is shadow banned. I have no idea why. So I tried to make a new one "GetMeAway". I used a new IP and deleted cookies. Yet the new one was immediately shadowbanned too. Does HN use fingerprinting for this? Writing this via a proxy and a VM.

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HN is unlikely to tell you how their anti-abuse system works, but you can always e-mail the mods and ask them to unban your old account.

Maybe your are right and it's something they don't talk about. But maybe we, the users, can have a discussion about it.

I mailed them the last time I posted something. They unblocked the post then. But it feels a bit cumbersome to go that route every time.

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